Mapping Medical Modernity explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo, a city undergoing rapid transformation from the seat of power of the Tokugawa shoguns of the Edo period to the capital of a modern nation-state and its expanding empire in the Meiji period. Tracing the development of institutions and policies designed to improve medical care and public health in a dense urban environment, Susan L. Burns e...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Make a onetime awkward lecture into a healthy ongoing conversation.As Christian parents, we want to guard our children from the flood of sexual imagery and inuendo, confusion around identity, and downright misinformation that pervades our culture. But where and when do we have those conversations with our kids? And how do we reduce the anxiety and pressure most of us feel when we do?Don't Stress Talking Sex presents an engaging relational model tha...

2015 GOLD MEDAL winner - International Book Awards Readers' Favorite ContestWARNING: This book contains an uptight, proper English lord, whose frozen heart hides a tortured soul, and a feisty modern-day heroine determined to make the man see things her way. With a lovable cast of characters this book will earn a place on your keeper shelf.Thrown back to the year 1897, Victoria Ashton is mistaken for, and forced to impersonate, the spiteful,...

**A teenager’s idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition of the fallibility of the adults around him.Actor and director Ed Burns returns with the continuing fictionalized saga of growing up on Marlboro Road.**In this his second Marlboro Road novel, Edward Burns continues the tale, loosely based on his own childhood. The Guardian called Burns’s first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, “keenly felt…vivid…a te...

The only book on preserving you'll ever need! A vast and ambitious hardback cookbook featuring over 150 preserving recipes for drinks, condiments, salads, sweets, and more.Cultured draws on culinary traditions from around the world, employing techniques such as fermentation, pickling, dehydrating, salting, and sugaring. The recipes are organized by timescales—from quick pickles ready in a few hours to savory pastes that take weeks to ferment but can surviv...

A reverse May/December romance with a strong, independent, older heroine pitted against a hero who might be younger but is as sexy, mature, powerful, and alpha as they come.Quentin Blackwell, Earl of Devlyn, refused to marry a woman carrying another man's child. The price he paid for spurning the promiscuous youngest daughter of Baron Townsend was his fortune. Now, the baron's oldest daughter has come to him with an unexpected proposition. Devlyn seizes the chance ...

Lord Edgar Ashenbert and his fairy doctor, Lydia Carlton, continue to plan for their wedding. Unfortunately, it seems as though the road to the ceremony will be a long one, beset by troubles. While Edgar wishes for Lydia to think of nothing but their upcoming union, she struggles to do so. As he works to hide a terrible secret from her, she becomes increasingly suspicious. Meanwhile, the Carltons receive a pair of visitors from the Scottish Highlands. Not only do they claim that there is c...

"Legacy: the poetry of David Burns" is a collection of poems published to celebrate the life and creativity of David Burns (1931-2020), a Liverpool-born industrial chemist, mathematician, computer pioneer, and prolific late-life poet. Written during his retirement, his poems recount personal memories, family histories and social observations, and are presented with warmth and an unmistakable Liverpudlian wit.The book is presented in three sections, 'Life and Love', 'Musings' and 'T...

A clear-eyed look at how political pressures and military influences led President Obama to significantly increase US involvement in the War in Afghanistan, even as the prospects for success seemed increasingly dim.Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009 with a mandate to end the wars and occupations begun under George W. Bush. The American public and foreign policy–makers alike were ready to withdraw from these unpopular and unwieldy conflicts. While Obama fu...

A younger, inexperienced hero risks everything for the mature courtesan who steals his heart.“…this book is fantastic. Pleasure Me made my smexy heart beat in all its glory. I love this book.” A- — Mandi, Smexy BooksYouth and beauty are a courtesan’s greatest assets. At forty-one, Lady Ruth Attwood appears to have lost both, as her latest lover just abandoned her for a younger mistress. Struggling with the knowledge that she’s no l...

"A Man's a Man for A' That." Robert Burns was more than a poet; he was the voice of a nation and a pioneer of the Romantic movement. Writing with a fierce independence and a deep love for the natural world, Burns captured the joys, sorrows, and revolutionary spirit of the 18th century. This comprehensive collection brings together his entire poetic output, from his tender love lyrics and iconic folk songs to his sharp-witted satires that challenged the religious and social hypocrisies of h...